Wrestling wins Ivies

[jtwcornell91]

1985 is a natural dividing line for the ECAC, in the way that 1970 is a natural dividing line for the NFL.  Having started following when the merger was recent history, I'm amazed at home many super bowls there have been at this point...

[RichH]

I've also mentioned on this forum Trinity's squash streak, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of their last loss on Feb. 22. They also wrapped up their 10th straight national championship recently.  It is the longest winning streak in collegiate sports history, in any sport. 183 and counting.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2932885
http://www.courant.com/sports/hc-jeffcol0218.artfeb18,0,3072134.column

And it ended last night, nearly 4 years after the above post in a 5-4 defeat at #2 Yale.  Trinity's first loss of the century. At nearly 14 years, there were 252 straight wins.

http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-trinity-streak-ends-0119-20120118,0,3496347.story
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/jan/19/m-squash-elis-shatter-historic-streak/

I like how the Trinity coach said, "Losing sucks, not a relief. This isn't fun, I hate losing..."

I was just talking to a Trinity faculty member on Tuesday, and he was convinced that the streak would end this year, and even pointed to the Yale match.  Of note to us, #6 Cornell was win #251 in the streak, a 7-2 result just this past weekend. Before last night, CU was the only team to win more than 1 game against Trinity this season.  That Cornell is ranked #6 in the country was news to me. Quite the quiet rise for CU Squash.

Trinity's streak far surpasses the number of wins of other notable intercollegiate winning streaks. Yale's swimming team had a 201-meet winning streak between 1940 and 1961. Miami's men's tennis team won 137 matches between 1957 and 1964, and the UCLA men's basketball team won 88 in a row under John Wooden in the early 1970s. More recently, Penn State's women's volleyball team won 109 matches in a streak that ended in 2010, and the UConn women's basketball team won 90 games in a streak that ended last December.

[ugarte]

Quite the quiet rise for CU Squash.

Color me stunned that this hasn't led SportsCenter yet.

[Chuck Henderson]

The squash team has been good for the past 3 years or so, certainly a rise from where they had been in recent decades.  But this is not the first time at this national level.  The 1963-64 team (on which I played) may have been Cornell's best.  It's hard to compare eras, and there are a lot more teams playing now.  We beat Yale and Penn for the first time in the program's then short history.  Rankings were only informal, but we were fourth nationally behind Harvard, Princeton, and Army (Navy was also good, but we did not play them because of some lingering dispute).  (There's a similarity in wresting, with some reports of its recent success not aware of the power Cornell was in the '50s.)

[ugarte]

Cornell's bid to close out an undefeated Ivy season (which was never really in doubt) is off to a good start. Cornell has won the first three matches 13-0, 4-0, 15-0 against Columbia.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell's bid to close out an undefeated Ivy season (which was never really in doubt) is off to a good start. Cornell has won the first three matches 13-0, 4-0, 15-0 against Columbia.

Meet score 19-3 after six matches.  Tougher match with Hofstra coming up at 3pm.